Motivational Quotes

Music

Their savage eyes turn'd to a modest gaze By the sweet power of music: therefore the poet Did feign that Orpheus drew trees, stones and floods; Since nought so stockish, hard and full of rage, But music for the time doth change his nature. The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, Is fit for treasons, stratagems and spoils.

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Music

William Shakespeare

If we were all determined to play the first violin we should never have an ensemble. Therefore, respect every musician in his proper place.

Schumann, Robert

Words are poor interpreters in the realms of emotion. When all words end, music begins; when they suggest, it realizes; and hence is the secret of its strange, inexpressible power.

Haweis, H. R.

The notes I handle no better than many pianists. But the pauses between the notes --ah, that is where the art resides.

Schnabel, Artur

People whose sensibility is destroyed by music in trains, airports, lifts, cannot concentrate on a Beethoven Quartet.

Lutoslawski, Witold

People compose for many reasons: to become immortal; because the pianoforte happens to be open; because they want to become a millionaire; because of the praise of friends; because they have looked into a pair of beautiful eyes; for no reason whatsoever.

Schumann, Robert

Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.

G. K. Chesterton

It is the only sensual pleasure without vice.

Johnson, Samuel

I think I should have no other mortal wants, if I could always have plenty of music. It seems to infuse strength into my limbs and ideas into my brain. Life seems to go on without effort, when I am filled with music.

George Eliot

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My heart, which is so full to overflowing, has often been solaced and refreshed by music when sick and weary.

Martin Luther

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If a thing isn't worth saying, you sing it.

Pierre Beaumarchais

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The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking,'Is there a meaning to music?'My answer would be,'Yes.'And'Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?'My answer to that would be,'No.'

Aaron Copland

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Music is the key to the female heart.

Seume, Johann G.

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Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same thing nowadays.

Oscar Wilde

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Without music, life would be an error. The German imagines even God singing songs

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Music, moody food of us that trade in love.

William Shakespeare

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Music, the greatest good that mortals know, And all of heaven we have below.

Addison, Joseph

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If you can walk you can dance. If you can talk you can sing.

Proverb, Zimbabwe

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When griping grief the heart doth wound, and doleful dumps the mind opresses, then music, with her silver sound, with speedy help doth lend redress.

William Shakespeare

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Music expresses that which can not be said and on which it is impossible to be silent

Hugo, Victor

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Ah, music. A magic beyond all we do here!

J. K. Rowling

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Wagner's music is better than it sounds.

Edgar Wilson Nye

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I know only two tunes. One them is Yankee Doodle and the other isn't.

Grant, Ulysses S.

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[T]here's no bad day that can't be overcome by listening to a barbershop quartet; this is just truth, plain and simple.

Chuck Sigars

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A lot of people are singing about how screwed up the world is, and I don't think that everybody wants to hear about that all the time.

Carey, Mariah

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It's a marvelous feeling when someone says I want to do this song of yours because they've connected to it. That's what I'm after.

Carpenter, Mary Chapin

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Without Elvis, none of us could have made it.

Holly, Buddy

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Hell is full of musical amateurs.

George Bernard Shaw

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Music hath the charm to soothe a savage beast, but I'd try a revolver first.

Billings, Josh

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Modern music is as dangerous as narcotics.

Mascagni, Pietro

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Good music is very close to primitive language.

Diderot, Denis

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Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue.

Plato

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Brass bands are all very well in their place - outdoors and several miles away.

Sir Thomas Beecham

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Perhaps all music, even the newest, is not so much something discovered as something that re-emerges from where it lay buried in the memory, inaudible as a melody cut in a disc of flesh. A composer lets me hear a song that has always been shut up silent within me.

Genet, Jean

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One is hardly sensible of fatigue while he marches to music.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Classical music is the kind we keep thinking will turn into a tune.

Kin Hubbard

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Canned music is like audible wallpaper.

Cooke, Alistair

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Music is the shorthand of emotion.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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The pleasure we feel in music springs from the obedience which is in it.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Beethoven can write music, thank God, but he can do nothing else on earth.

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

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Music is well said to be the speech of angels; in fact, nothing among the utterances allowed to man is felt to be so divine. It brings us near to the infinite.

Carlyle, Thomas

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A good composer is slowly discovered a bad composer is slowly found out.

Newman, Ernest

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I can't listen to that much Wagner. I start getting the urge to conquer Poland.

Woody Allen

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Americans want grungy people, stabbing themselves in the head on stage. They get a bright bunch like us, with deodorant on, they don't get it.

Gallagher, Liam

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If one hears bad music, it is one's duty to drown it by one's conversation.